The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-08-28
COUNTING IN MOKMONDOM.
Two Girls Reiste Experieaces with Folly
gminic Wooers.


yrou. tAs ~ Lgsls 9lote. Demoerst
There are plenty Of pretty girls In Salt
Lake City They ara Mormon sirs. too: some
OF them are marriod. a lew hre In pylyHanY
great grand fat llers-yhte.h haired, long, beard
cd. and round -shoudered lords and mas
tiers. who have covenanteu TO love- hohol
and cherish u hall dozon wives At q time
Mormon Yenilenien, and who will not listen
T II i,r' uassaMI Is' viii 7 say they know and
believe thai the princin!e Is right hul III. the
same one wife Is enough Tor them. They say
oil to take another wife ,llr pretty comlani ms
they now i,a,y woul tear out their hair by the
Charming brunette, educated and accom-
plisled. and, al,h"uRli Mormon AS inr a. leliH-
nOrunt Of The iact that she uad sixteen moth
err when her delightful old pupa died, and sie
aps s p dt ot n,nters Yct she Viii ne" let
her hllsuanI even talk of polyEnny. You
should 20. her tart syef i sna am fM sr n re-,
lips when uiiybOiy su.Kcsts that her Charley
ma. NV of these llne days bring home sec-
49, - lot him try 1t once" she remarked.
E rns ier. anu Il / don't iurn sh hun und ler
n NAM ,Is Glx Was fs"i asy sEs' s" '9
Aud her usbund Is the son OF q Mormon
Bisi,"p, TOO; tins old man hss s.ven wives and
thirty--lx children. and he has served u term
III the v all l,eniten larry !or unlawful cohahl-
tn,ion undsrth Ldmunds.Tucker net. Brig,
sn =" or % H I" Me
amy. You hear from every side statements
concerning young women related t. al sorts
OF Murnon di-nitnrio+ who maze Il q
condition when theY accept the husband
that these latter must renounce: ~ letst rs
r LIP ptiss ya" n ,as aS1rne
girls ri marriA-eable age den9liirs lhe ssS, EN-.
Il they eiong to poly:;!ne families they no
Nat h. He dWsli i" ' Two and three and Iour vile
homes They denounce the system. anu many
Of them. rather than run the chance OF belnY
dragged into UOlyEuniy, seoI their crnuS ana
lOvers among, the uentil.. young men 9f the
S.mYy EHd "l aooS 9dsy KIM wi' bIo 'Te
amer anh m I's over H. ba. are Rnssh Girls and
have Mormon parents. They say their prayers
Mormon families, and until recently ne'he
was ont III her mousse alter9 O'clock IT night
They bel iere In their Church. but nol IN ",iyH,
H"rrm"ns, who, she says would kill her II she
became the second or third wife Of any man.
opensI tho conrsrsRtrn ny ASKING them IN
iesl why they didn't yet marrieL:
"oh. |, isn't because We haven. he'd chances.
sa d one Of lhem, hall sanciy, " ,M enm me
WEEKS Ns.T p Saf ys"Ii sd over twenty osrs OF
riage. snd some o: them IRON n!gh-up gentle
men. to-" with plenty o. means s,,o,. =, ,,.m,r
And why didn't Tou hook On 10 one Of themF
BECAUSE didn't want to 90 into polygamy,
she S w we're a" asn wo IL
snt Ny mother ""uda Is, me Do
"hsye many poIygamists asked for your
Yes. lot. Of, them,, hadn't been In Sal,
at the so"fs , r4 ss1 o hn Hs I" s'
h, S"as Gs ya"r
eall again thai very night and propnse ! told
him n have TO consider i awhile before
BY ', a. 10 o'cims saw Tie Norman In IIe ho"se'
p" you by. know no ." wH" H": a he hfs'
rid f4' ny t sda's se %1 %nd he. p go, I'VE
H, III Called on m s.s fs ahsr . snq but fa
got y cold answer and I never was
bothered by him any moro. Bnt ! WAS both;
would sse me on the street and lay heir plans
to ss s sSa ssrI T INV h ' Ss saa
One old tell"w, almost 75. with four wiye- on
his hands, came to the hou'e one day, and
lie talked around Tor u Will and ! laughed
ami uhtttsd with him, not suspettlng any.
Thing Finally he told me he h" saa nHs9 drGs n9
said he. Il dreamed that We had been married,
anI from TIL; he went on wi II his n"nsense
untll no HctuhlIy bSktl nhNcH
Inn ri slap his face II hi said any more. hnt
he went TO lnther anyhow and argued the
ma ter with him nm II father iOld hi IN tn &c
about his bu' ,ess and take care Of tho wives
iis had before he went looking for snothsi
one"
YES. every ONT OF them"
" How many hnd your
oh. dozens and dD2sna: didn't keep count
but after WAS hore u year or 40 they saw II
was no use, aud 80 let mo alone. Then there
WIS hs tLimundS law to correct and hold
Them IN place. lline has been the experience
Of every young girl who came To Utah prey inus
y 1879 And were many of them tnken g.,
Why, bless you, yes, There ars some old
the streets of Salt Lake To-day that have tie
pretiisst young wives you ever clapp d eyes
~ Are YOU ,Ekeeping company with Norman
"Ol, delr. no. My fellow Is u uentis.
have hal him two years. When he came 10 ou
hnu-e thu 1rsl nyhi mother asked him II b,
was Mormon, and he said no. Then sllr tn!l
him here was M use coming after haI ,lauIh
ter unless ne intended 10 lnin tn" MormoI
Church. lie hasn't been 10 the house since hu
we love each other. and we're going 10 he mar
rist. whether the old folks like II or not TIN